Underwhelming. Please do not use timers for this kind of stuff, would have thought it was cooler if I wasn't disappointed.

great RL event :D

the hyperlink in
http://eve.com/monument-about-the-monument

"More on the time capsule will be announced at www.eve.com/monument " <= this hyperlink is broken

It's two people banging their heads against a wall. It's perfect!

Wow, people are really butthurt over this, huh?

Can I have your stuffs when you cancel your 20 accounts?

I'm eager to see you swinging the whip and doing something great again, not resting on your past accomplishments.

So, the monument is nice for looking back, but when will you start locking ahead again, and letting us know about it?

How many precious CCP resources are being thrown at this statue?
How many coding-months dedicated to fixing / overhauling legacy code could have been purchased for the cost of this monument to the hubris of some people?

Eve is a virtual world.
What is the point of a statue that the vast vast majority of the player base will never see, and most will never even hear about?
CCP would have been better off coding this monument into the game and placing it in Jita.

It would have more value to more of the player base.

How many precious CCP resources are being thrown at this statue?
How many coding-months dedicated to fixing / overhauling legacy code could have been purchased for the cost of this monument to the hubris of some people?

You git! Stealing my description of it!

I can't really imagine anyone caring.

Couldn't the money put into erecting this thing have paid a dev to fix some of the abandoned content in this game :/

Edit : Monument should just have been a concrete door that never opens. It's more representative of their development style :)

Underwhelming. Please do not use timers for this kind of stuff, would have thought it was cooler if I wasn't disappointed.

How many precious CCP resources are being thrown at this statue?
How many coding-months dedicated to fixing / overhauling legacy code could have been purchased for the cost of this monument to the hubris of some people?

Eve is a virtual world.
What is the point of a statue that the vast vast majority of the player base will never see, and most will never even hear about?
CCP would have been better off coding this monument into the game and placing it in Jita.

It would have more value to more of the player base.

Nice try trying to slip this by, shame I thought CCP was somewhat independent but seems it's controlled by the same people as the big corporations and following the same agenda.

http://i.imgur.com/iwFtZP3.jpg

Nice try trying to slip this by, shame I thought CCP was somewhat independent but seems it's controlled by the same people as the big corporations and following the same agenda.

http://i.imgur.com/iwFtZP3.jpg

Hahah I told CCP that at least one idiot would make this stupid whiny argument.

I've never ever heard of a Corporation ever doing something like this for their customers, ever. Much less a gaming company.

THAT was the count down?

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da fuq?

I've never ever heard of a Corporation ever doing something like this for their customers, ever. Much less a gaming company.
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Eve is a virtual world.
What is the point of a statue that the vast vast majority of the player base will never see, and most will never even hear about?


It would have more value to more of the player base.

What a bunch of pessimistic, self-entitled, unimaginative DWEEBS poasting in here.

CCP should just copy the toon names of all the Haters in this thread and LEAVE THEM OFF the monument.

Easily done. And I hope they do.

It's a beautiful structure and a great idea, and I can't wait to visit it sometime in the future.

I've never ever heard of a Corporation ever doing something like this for their customers, ever. Much less a gaming company.

Frankly, I'm impressed.

Stupid short term money grab, "getting players to resub for their name on it."



Useless idea.

My favorite part is the crappy article by Ripard justifying it, headlined with "We're All Building This Together" - along with a random picture of our useless CSM's.

You see this in everyday real life, when the distance between the "common people" (not ment as a derogatory term) and "the higher echelon", focus on what is important gets re-adjusted. Plus it's a good way of getting your face and name in the newspapers.

You've never heard of management engaging in vanity projects?

Are you joking?

It's not "for the customers."

It's for themselves.

If it was for the customers, I would expect the money and effort to be going into the game itself, because as a customer, that's what I'm actually paying for.

Richard Garriot took my name to space. Beat that.

Some day, ... I'll constantly bicker on about how things used to be better in my days and that game companies used to value their customers until they can recite everything tehy said in their sleep.

How does this thing even represent EVE? There's no imagery in the design that resembles anything in EVE, just a blank obelisk flanked by a face-like object. The only thing telling us that this monument represents EVE is that sculptor saying it does. It could just as well represent the struggle of the common man to understand the mindless rapacity of the business world, or something else appropriately art-wonky.

How does this thing even represent EVE? There's no imagery in the design that resembles anything in EVE, just a blank obelisk flanked by a face-like object. The only thing telling us that this monument represents EVE is that sculptor saying it does. It could just as well represent the struggle of the common man to understand the mindless rapacity of the business world, or something else appropriately art-wonky.

I'm disappointed, CCP, because you made such a big deal over this and it's something that doesn't actually affect a lot of us.

I am so completely and utterly underwhelmed, CCP. Yeah, I guess a monument is cool, but here I was thinking the timer would be counting down to some important change to EVE Online, rather than an announcement about a planned monument.

How does this thing even represent EVE? There's no imagery in the design that resembles anything in EVE, just a blank obelisk flanked by a face-like object. The only thing telling us that this monument represents EVE is that sculptor saying it does. It could just as well represent the struggle of the common man to understand the mindless rapacity of the business world, or something else appropriately art-wonky.

I'm disappointed, CCP, because you made such a big deal over this and it's something that doesn't actually affect a lot of us.

Interesting that you are so impressively psychic that you "just know these things as truth". Good God.

Richard Garriot took my name to space. Beat that.

The players I'm sure would rather this money be spent on the game, or given to a charity,

There is an obvious disconnect between CCP and the players here. And whoever forced this project is living in a bubble far away from normal people.

What a bunch of pessimistic, self-entitled, unimaginative DWEEBS poasting in here.

CCP should just copy the toon names of all the Haters in this thread and LEAVE THEM OFF the monument.

Easily done. And I hope they do.

that one posts to sound edgy and cynical

Steel plate on the bottom = Minmatar

A monument.. or tombstone?

Just exactly as you just did right here. Congratulations, creep.

I was expecting to be underwhelmed.
I won! :D

Same tired old arguments used against Maya Lins' minimalist design for the Vietnam Memorial in Washingto DC. "Nobody will go. It's ugly. A black slab has nothing to do with Vietnam". Blah blah blah.

It's so popular they can't hardly handle the crowds.

Time will tell all. It always does.

How many old players will resub to get their name on the monument?
How many will stick around for a while when they see how much has changed in EVE since they played?
How many extra devs will CCP be able to afford with all this extra sub money?

And most importantly of all, how will all this nerf hi-sec?

And I told my friends that at least one CSM member would pickout "Maybe develop the game more instead of building monuments lol" as a "stupid whiny argument". Shows what we know

Older players resubscribing is a bad thing ? REALLY ? TRULY ????

Wow .. that timer was the biggest let down I can remember .. .

I would have preferred my 10 yet vet station that was promised a year ago TBH :(

Really, you think a ton of players will burn 12 or 15 dollars/ pounds to re-sub to get their player name engraved on a rock?

Really, you think a ton of players will burn 12 or 15 dollars/ pounds to re-sub to get their player name engraved on a rock?
And I would suggest the segment of players that re-sub to get their player name immortalized will not likely be the type to hang around in the game. Whatever factors that drove them to unsub in the first place will remain.
I strongly doubt that any revenue increase in subs will outweigh the costs of this venture.

If a player's main character is called "I hate Iceland" or something similar, would CCP still add that name to the monument?

Do you understand what marketing is, I mean as a basic concept?

Dammit. Now I'm gonna have to go to Iceland . Now, is there anything else to see in Iceland worth the trip so I don't have to admit to wifey that, secretly, it's all about the monument?

Yup. Do you know what trying to run level 5's where the acceleration gate doesn't work is like, while being told by a GM "It's completeable, you just have to fly the remaining 10,000 km to the next pocket sub-warp." ?

Warcraft? There's no Great Orc statue.

I really cant see myself going all the way to Iceland just to see some slabs with my name on it. Given the number of characters active in Eve right now, that'll be some small writing.

And you believe that if CCP hadn't decided to celebrate with a monument that EVE would be perfect and have no flaws?

Or are you just professionally angry?

CCP's position is that the character name has to conform to local Icelandic law, so no hatespeech bullshit or incitements to violence, but other than that if people want to immortalise themselves as xXxW33dL0rd420xXx then that's up to them.

Underwhelmed by the announcement.

Manipulated by the timer.

CCP vanity project.

Monument has no reference to either Iceland or EVE at all.

Sum it up?

How will you be defining a persons main character and will you be using the name of one per account or selecting a main from multiple?

On Saturday, 1 March 2014, the die for this snapshot of New Eden will be taken and over half a million names will be frozen in time, with the highest skilled character from every active EVE Online account on this day joined together as part of Worlds Within a World.

Could someone at CCP please explain what the 3 thingies on top of that base represent ?

(the middle one looks like the black monolith we went visiting a long time ago, but why favor the Talocan civilization above the other 3 ancient space faring races the Sleepers, Takmahl, and Yan Jung, not to mention the current 4 primary space faring races; Gallente, Minmatar, Amarr and Caldari ?)

From right to left: the rounded monolith represents the analogue human world of the player, then the barrier evokes the screen with which the players and EVE interface with each other, and then the sharp, angular monolith represents the digital world of New Eden.

Although I had expected it, because I know from long experience that the EVE-O forums are a cesspool of people who would find a way to be mad if they were teleported to the land of free money and blowjobs, I still find it discouraging that people are unironically getting angry because CCP are proud enough of their creation of the canvas of EVE, and grateful enough to us as the artists, that they're putting up a real, solid monument to commemorate it.

Something that no game company has ever done for the community of their customers (as far as I am aware). Something that CCP clearly think that the EVE community uniquely deserves.

And you're complaining like petulant adolescents having a meltdown because daddy didn't buy them a porsche for their sweet sixteen.

Take a step back and look at yourselves and what you're doing here, angry people. Because that's what you look like to me.

Amen.

Malcanis, would it be inappropriate to send the haters buddy subs to Hello Kitty Online?

Although I had expected it, because I know from long experience that the EVE-O forums are a cesspool of people who would find a way to be mad if they were teleported to the land of free money and blowjobs...

And you're complaining like petulant adolescents having a meltdown because daddy didn't buy them a porsche for their sweet sixteen.

Take a step back and look at yourselves and what you're doing here, angry people. Because that's what you look like to me.

No, they can go play EA games until they have thought about what they've done and are sorry.

From right to left: the rounded monolith represents the analogue human world of the player, then the barrier evokes the screen with which the players and EVE interface with each other, and then the sharp, angular monolith represents the digital world of New Eden.

Do you know what the 'EVE quote' on the last structure will be?

This guy is a CSM? ...wow.

How about if the monument actually had something to do with EVE, Iceland, or both?

That would be a start.

As I said before, there is a major disconnect here that isn't that hard to see if looked at from a neutral point of view.

instead of saying "You jerks have no reason to be upset this is awesome and you are wrong!" why don't you actually try to understand what your customers are trying to communicate to you.

How about if the monument actually had something to do with EVE, Iceland, or both?

"LOL Noob, HTFU"

This guy is a CSM? ...wow.

How about if the monument actually had something to do with EVE, Iceland, or both?

That would be a start.

As I said before, there is a major disconnect here that isn't that hard to see if looked at from a neutral point of view.

instead of saying "You jerks have no reason to be upset this is awesome and you are wrong!" why don't you actually try to understand what your customers are trying to communicate to you.

This guy is a CSM?

Although I had expected it, because I know from long experience that the EVE-O forums are a cesspool of people who would find a way to be mad

if they were teleported to the land of free money and blowjobs, I still find it discouraging that people are unironically getting angry because CCP are proud enough of their creation of the canvas of EVE, and grateful enough to us as the artists, that they're putting up a real, solid monument to commemorate it.

Something that no game company has ever done for the community of their customers (as far as I am aware). Something that CCP clearly think that the EVE community uniquely deserves.

And you're complaining like petulant adolescents having a meltdown because daddy didn't buy them a porsche for their sweet sixteen.

Take a step back and look at yourselves and what you're doing here, angry people. Because that's what you look like to me.

This would go beter of without a timer.

I don't know of many things that have had monuments erected in its name.

Warcraft? There's no Great Orc statue.

The "timer" feedback was anticipated by some of us and has already been passed around internally to the appropriate people, so you can all mark that down as noted.

Although one person did have a brilliant idea on Twitter that would make for an awesome April Fools joke. i bet the timer will end and it will be all like "timer feature test complete..."

Well, actually, there is: http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/orc-statue-in-front-of-blizzard-hq-irvine-california.jpg

It sits outside Blizzard's HQ in California.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17no3lpyy0yhwjpg/original.jpg

Kerrigan is pretty cool as well.

The cool thing about Blizzard is that they were at least honest about admitting that it was a gift for themselves, not the players.

The "timer" feedback was anticipated by some of us and has already been passed around internally to the appropriate people, so you can all mark that down as noted.

Although one person did have a brilliant idea on Twitter that would make for an awesome April Fools joke. i bet the timer will end and it will be all like "timer feature test complete..."

Some people, seriously..

The "timer" feedback was anticipated by some of us and has already been passed around internally to the appropriate people, so you can all mark that down as noted.

Although one person did have a brilliant idea on Twitter that would make for an awesome April Fools joke. i bet the timer will end and it will be all like "timer feature test complete..."

[quote=Akrasjel Lanate]Although one person did have a brilliant idea on Twitter that would make for an awesome April Fools joke. i bet the timer will end and it will be all like "timer feature test complete..."

Yes, some of us are going to chuckle that CCP is undertaking a vanity project as a sad publicity stunt.

It reminds me of trying to cure the economy through advertising that the economy is good - and then justifying it by talking about all those jobs you created by making the advertisement in the first place.

I agree.

I mean, look at these responses. If you give even minor criticism, people basically vomit insults into their keyboards as a response.

It's almost as if they can't handle criticism at all, and expect every single thing CCP does to be met with universal acclaim.

How is this Vanity ? What does CCP have to gain ? This is costing them a lot of ISK, literally ISK.

Just what is CCP trying to white-wash as you imply by inference to "distracting from the truth" advertising methods.

Just what, really ?

This whole thing has done nothing but show how unimaginative and lame most of this playerbase actually is.

I seriously hope CCP is doing the high school teacher thing and "taking names". Those who are vehemently opposed to this should be left off the monument without question.

And that is very easily done. Or, how about a mechanic on the Account management page so that people can opt out if they are so insulted about being celebrated for supporting the game for so long ?

I like the "taking the names from the Forums" idea much better though.

The "timer" feedback was anticipated by some of us and has already been passed around internally to the appropriate people, so you can all mark that down as noted.

Although one person did have a brilliant idea on Twitter that would make for an awesome April Fools joke. i bet the timer will end and it will be all like "timer feature test complete..."

Another one for the opt-out feature! Maybe CCP will listen.

How is this Vanity ? What does CCP have to gain ?

Just what is CCP trying to white-wash as you imply by inference to "distracting from the truth" advertising methods.

This whole thing has done nothing but show how unimaginative and lame most of this playerbase actually is.

Or, how about a mechanic on the Account management page so that people can opt out if they are so insulted about being celebrated for supporting the game for so long ?

How is this Vanity ? What does CCP have to gain ? This is costing them a lot of ISK, literally ISK.

Just what is CCP trying to white-wash as you imply by inference to "distracting from the truth" advertising methods.

Just what, really ?

This whole thing has done nothing but show how unimaginative and lame most of this playerbase actually is.

I seriously hope CCP is doing the high school teacher thing and "taking names". Those who are vehemently opposed to this should be left off the monument without question.

And that is very easily done. Or, how about a mechanic on the Account management page so that people can opt out if they are so insulted about being celebrated for supporting the game for so long ?

I like the "taking the names from the Forums" idea much better though.

The http://eve.com/monument link works for me

I'd prefer the money used for this to be spent hiring programmers, writers, developers, artists, and re-hiring all of the people that CCP laid off in the past.

Glad some of you are excited for this, but it's hard to feel that way.

I think you have wrong ideas about what a community team is supposed to do.

Never mind, you can console yourself with the knowledge that you are too cool and cynical to enjoy something like this. I hope you will spare a little mote of pity for poor fools like me who know no better than to be really happy.

The timer ruined it. .

A single dev blog announcement would have made significantly more sense, instead of getting people's hopes up.

Never mind, you can console yourself with the knowledge that you are too cool and cynical to enjoy something like this. I hope you will spare a little mote of pity for poor fools like me who know no better than to be really happy.

One of the chief criticisms in years past was about ccp not being focused on the game. Losing focus, doing lots of other things and side projects that the subscribers were not interested in.

"This list of active, paying players will be captured on March 1st, 2014GÇöno exceptions."

Does active, paying players, mean active players who sub with PLEXes won't be included?

One of the most important things I learned 20 years ago in rehab (for alcohol) was that having any kind of expectations at all, even just a little, will always without fail lead to disappointment.

One has to just take things as they come.

Sad they only teach this stuff in drug rehabs anymore. It's about the only way to "learn the rules of life" that's out there. It's certainly not coming from families or schools anymore.

Great idea and better make sure I got the account covered on March 1st to not miss out on this

You know what the answer is perfectly well.

You know what the answer is perfectly well.

Eh, not really cause the sentence before that says:

"The monument will stand atop a half meter tall metal-plated concrete platform that will have the names of all the GÇ£main charactersGÇ¥ of all active EVE Online players etched upon it. "

So please clarify this for us, CCP.

This bit appears to be missing from the page, I've looked it over a couple of times and can't find any further information regarding it.

More info required, many of those that have passed away hold a special place in players hearts.

This bit appears to be missing from the page, I've looked it over a couple of times and can't find any further information regarding it.

More info required, many of those that have passed away hold a special place in players hearts.

Of course, as well as celebrating those who have touched New Eden in the past and continue to assist in weaving the tapestry of history we continue to create together, we must also take the time to honor those fallen pilots who gave so much to New Eden and are sadly no longer with us.

To do this, we will be offering the CEOs of corporations within EVE an avenue through which to contact us if they feel they would like to have the name of a fallen wingman who is no longer with us added to the monument.

Please be aware that we will accept requests only from the CEOs of corporations to prevent support ticket spam, and these requests can be made by filing a support ticket to the EVE Community Team under the GÇ£Other IssuesGÇ¥ Category, and the GÇ£CommunityGÇ¥ Subcategory. Please use the subject line GÇ£Monument TributeGÇ¥ so that we can filter these tickets with ease.

There is a process for this. Attempted abuse will be met with extreme sanctions.

Same tired old arguments used against Maya Lins' minimalist design for the Vietnam Memorial in Washingto DC. "Nobody will go. It's ugly. A black slab has nothing to do with Vietnam". Blah blah blah.

Rightly so, abuse of this should be severely punished.

Kirren D'marr is just a figment of my imagination who matters to no one but me, and is in no way deserving of any sort of memorialization.

This is a pretty awesome thing. Kudos to CCP for this real world immortalization. It'd be cool to see my name etched in stone.

To all the "it's not in game and doesn't affect me" rabble: Your pilot's name is going to be etched in a stone/steel surface that will last decades or centuries, like an emperor, pharaoh, or honored soldier. What else has happened in your life to give you that honor? Especially since you didn't have to die gloriously to get it

Eh, not really cause the sentence before that says:

"The monument will stand atop a half meter tall metal-plated concrete platform that will have the names of all the GÇ£main charactersGÇ¥ of all active EVE Online players etched upon it. "

So please clarify this for us, CCP.